"As far as I know, you can only die once..." But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she'd never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note tells the tale of the darkly enigmatic love letter written by Kenji Okada-Caines, a petty criminal who once exposited on English literary classics and now, marooned on his native isle, nurtures an obsession with Aetna's writing. His murky images of a woman with ten voices and no face launch him into waking nightmares, driving him to confront his lifetime's worth of failures as a scholar, lover, and opiate addict. His wild conspiracy theories of Aetna as an impostor ten times over lead him to the doorstep of the Japanese mother who turned her back on him-and to the horrifying discovery that the great love of his life isn't who she seems to be. Kenji's is a story of dire misunderstandings and the truths we hide even from the ones we love.

About the Author

Mandy-Suzanne Wong was the winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award (Awabi, 2019) and the Eyelands International Flash Fiction Competition. Her work has also been shortlisted for the UK's Aeon Award. Her stories and essays appear in The Spectacle, The Hypocrite Reader, Conclave, Sonic Field, Quail Bell, The Island Review, and several other venues. She is a native of Bermuda, where she's writing a new novel and her first nonfiction book.

Reviews
"Dr. Wong's debut novel has been nominated for the PEN Open Book Award, Foreword Indies Book Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and other international literary honors. The novel has already been named a finalist for the Permafrost Book Prize, a semifinalist for the Conium Review Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award. "Writers praise the book's experiments with Bermuda's dialect, which French-Australian novelist J.L. Crozier calls 'a version of English utterly its own, so much so that it comes close to being a character in its own right." -- Bernews



Book Information
ISBN 9781947548824
Author Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Format Paperback
Page Count 454
Imprint Regal House Publishing LLC
Publisher Regal House Publishing LLC
Weight(grams) 566g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 6mm * 152mm